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If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

      ² If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

      ³ If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him; he shall make restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

      ⁴ If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double.

      ⁵ If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

      ⁶ If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

      ⁷ If a man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double.

      ⁸ If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near unto God, [to see] whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.

      ⁹ For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, [or] for any manner of lost thing, whereof one saith, This is it, the cause of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay double unto his neighbor.

      ¹⁰ If a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

      ¹¹ the oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, whether he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

      ¹² But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

      ¹³ If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness: he shall not make good that which was torn.

      ¹⁴ And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

      ¹⁵ If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for its hire.

      ¹⁶ And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

      ¹⁷ If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

      ¹⁸ Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.

      ¹⁹ Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

      ²⁰ He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto Jehovah only, shall be utterly destroyed.

      ²¹ And a sojourner shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

      ²² Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

      ²³ If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

      ²⁴ and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

      ²⁵ If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

      ²⁶ If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down:

      ²⁷ for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? And it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

      ²⁸ Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse a ruler of thy people.

      ²⁹ Thou shalt not delay to offer of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

      ³⁰ Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, [and] with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

      ³¹ And ye shall be holy men unto me: therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

      Chapter 23

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      ¹ Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

      ² Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest [justice]:

      ³ neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

      ⁴ If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

      ⁵ If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release [it] with him.

      ⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to thy poor in his cause.

      ⁷ Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

      ⁸ And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

      ⁹ And a sojourner shalt thou not oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

      ¹⁰ And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:

      ¹¹ but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.

      ¹² Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.

      ¹³ And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

      ¹⁴ Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

      ¹⁵ The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it thou camest out from Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty:

      ¹⁶ and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field.

      ¹⁷ Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.

      ¹⁸ Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

      ¹⁹ The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in it mother's milk.

      ²⁰ Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

      ²¹ Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgression: